Publication: The Material Cultures of Mining (collection of essays)
Michael Farrenkopf, Stefan Siemer (eds.), The Material Cultures of Mining: Object History in the Fields of Knowledge, Technology, Everyday Life, and Memory, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022
Synopsis
The book is a collection of essays exploring the topic of material culture in mining with different approaches, from history to archeology, anthropology and heritage conservation. It covers almost all the historical periods beginning from the Bronze Age. The essays are in English and in German.